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StartFast Venture Accelerator announces teams for summer program
SYRACUSE — The StartFast Venture Accelerator has announced the five teams that will participate in its summer program beginning May 28. StartFast is a program
Support provider Tech Geekery gets a reboot
SYRACUSE — Tech Geekery, Inc., which provides technical-support assistance and training on computers and iPhones, is a startup that’s a reincarnation of a business one of its co-owners had launched back in 2009. With downtown operations based at the Syracuse Technology Garden, Tech Geekery is a mobile service that provides assistance that could include installing
Glyphr launches reality shopping
Glyph: A symbolic figure engraved or incised; a symbol that imparts information non-verbally. — American Heritage Dictionary SYRACUSE — “Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don’t know which half.” The quip is attributed to John Wanamaker, a department-store mogul considered to be the father of modern advertising
Oneonta firm to research ultracapacitors
ONEONTA — Most people don’t think about capacitors, unless they’re talking about the flux capacitor in the DeLorean time machine in the 1985 movie “Back to the Future,” but capacitors help make our modern world go around. Capacitors, which are energy-storage devices, are in just about everything from our cars to our cellphones, according to
Tops completes acquisition of four Big M stores
Tops Friendly Markets today announced it has completed the acquisition of four Big M supermarkets in Oneida, Oswego, and Jefferson counties. In March, Tops, a
Raymond Corp., Binghamton University students team up on electric go-kart project
GREENE — Students from Binghamton University’s engineering school and engineers from the Raymond Corp. recently teamed up on a project to convert a gas-powered go-kart
SBA announces pledge to increase lending to veteran entrepreneurs
The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) today announced the Veteran Pledge Initiative, a commitment by its top lenders to collectively increase their lending activity to
State awards funding for improvements at parks
State parks in the Central New York region, the Mohawk Valley, and the Southern Tier will benefit from state funding aimed at repairs and improvements in the parks, according to New York’s governor. Gov. Andrew Cuomo Friday announced $90 million in funding from the NY Works program for nearly 90 construction projects at parks and
Anaren shares slip after committee rejects purchase offer
DeWITT — Anaren, Inc.’s (NASDAQ: ANEN) stock price fell modestly today after Thursday’s announcement that its independent committee had rejected a $23 a share purchase
Preferred Mutual Insurance hires director of commercial lines
NEW BERLIN — Dan Stedman joined Preferred Mutual Insurance Co. as director of commercial lines this week. Stedman brings the insurance firm more than 30
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